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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 06 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT |
What I hope the judge understands, is that the "easy route" of reusing
Sun's APIs (via the Apache Harmony code) was the ONLY route that would achieve
compatibility, which was massively important (the platform might have been
dead-on-arrival if it didn't have millions of already-primed Java programmers as
potential coders for Android).
Google's other two choices that would preserve compatibility, would be (1) to
write their own code from scratch just as Apache Harmony did but still matching
the APIs 100%, or (2) to pay a bunch of money to Sun to license Sun's
implementation of the APIs and also Sun's Java trademarks.
Oracle would like everyone to believe that (2) was the only legal option, but
that's not what Sun believed at the time. Sun believed that Apache Harmony was
completely legal, and even if they didn't exactly like it, they were better off
welcoming it than trying to kill it off.
And the same was true of Android.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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